Hyphen problem

[MrsTurbo]

I'm working with a Mac version of Fontographer 4, sometimes creating 'infant' fonts from the fonts we have bought to create the correct typeface for children's education books. I'm also sometimes asked by the guys in our PC department to create PC version of the fonts we have for Mac.

No matter which I create I cannot get the hyphen to work. I've tried the 'changing the number of characters allowed in the font and assigning the characters (including the hyphen) to these new unicodes etc. It works in the case of the single quote but doesn't work for a hyphen. I'm at a loss what to do.

I'm not massively technical but if it's explained I can usually work out the problem. I thought, after finding the unicode asignment thingy as mentioned above, that I could solve it but the hyphen eludes me.

Please, please can someone help?

[Evertype]

I suspect this is a problem with Fog's old names list. Let me check.

[MrsTurbo]

Does anyone have any ideas about this, I've honestly tried everything, could someone please, please help and get back to me. PLEASE!

[Evertype]

Sorry. The Yule intervened.

The character in the hyphen position needs to be named "hyphen" and the code position needs to be "002D". When I open Fog I have that name, but the code position says "00AD".

Fog also has a character in the row above the comma in the character window which it calls "minus" with the code position "2212".
You may wish to add another character: at "00AD" add a character named "uni00AD"

This may fix your problem. It may not. As I said before, I think the Fontographer names lists need to be fixed.

[MrsTurbo]

Evertype

I think you may just have cracked it.

Many thanks

[EPP]

*** Fog also has a character in the row above the comma in the character window which it calls "minus" with the code position "2212".
You may wish to add another character: at "00AD" add a character named "uni00AD" ***

Does anyone know how to do this solution? I'm having a similar problem with hyphens that change to boxes, but receive an error when trying to manipulate to coding.

Thank you, John.

[Alex Petrov (FontLab)]

There is a character named "hyphen" between "comma" and "period". It has the wrong Unicode index 0x00AD. You must assign proper index 0x002D to this character by changing it in the Character Information dialog.

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